The Chicken Gadget You Didn't Know You Needed

It's chicken taco or burrito night, so what's the plan? Typically, I boil some boneless, skinless chicken breasts and use a couple of forks to shred them in a bowl. I bet that's how most people do it, unless they have some fancy meat shredders. But hey, I'm all about simplicity, so forks work just fine for me.

Introducing the latest must have kitchen gadget: the chicken shredder. 

A wise businessman once told me, "You can sell anything to anyone if you can convince them they need it." It seems obvious, right? Remember that funny Far Side cartoon where the salesman in a boat waved goodbye to Eskimos he just sold refrigerators to? 

I worked in sales myself and was quite successful at it. I always understood the power of a good gimmick, even though I was selling business-to-business products that were genuinely essential to their success. We weren't selling anything nobody else had. I just had to convince the customer I was the guy to buy it from.

So, a gadget just for shredding chicken? Really? I guess, why not. People have all sorts of kitchen gadgets that promise to make life easier. Imagine the thoughts someone had when they saw the first blender invented.

You have to hand it to the inventor. Perhaps he (or she) was like me, using forks to shred their chicken and thought, "There must be a better, easier way to do this." Ah, the mother of all inventions, right? Because as it turns out, this simple gadget is flying off the shelves faster than hotcakes at an IHOP.

Okay, that was a stupid joke, but since I'm not trying to win any comedy awards, I'm just going with it, thank you very much.

I would not call this gadget necessarily necessary, yet at the same time I can see why it would have any appeal at all. It's a unique way to shred chicken, and perhaps if someone suffers with arthritis, this would certainly be an easier way to accomplish the task than with just forks, or even a fancy meat shredder.

My wife and I like to make taco salads often, and lots of times we opt for shredded chicken to cook up with some taco seasoning to put in them. We like making crunchy taco bowls out of flour tortillas that we put in taco bowl forms, bake, and are absolutely awesome and delicious.

Now, there's an invention.

But with that being said, because we use shredded chicken often enough for a variety of dishes we enjoy, as silly as this gadget seems to me, considering it does something I can already do pretty easily, maybe it would still be worth trying.

Besides, for a mere $10, it's not like we'd be out much.

The author of this post fully admits this is a sad attempt to write about a product complete with several Amazon links in the hopes some sales may occur. That being said, it is also intended to be tongue in cheek, for whatever that's worth, and just for fun, and to afford readers a short departure from the usual, more serious political rants and fare found here. But of course, clicking on a link and buying any of the products highlighted here also helps to bring in a little extra dough to keep the content coming, and is greatly appreciated. 

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